More bad deeds that barely made the conservative news
media
Does there seem to be a pattern to all these
perverts? The more that they rant against other people's
misdeeds, the worse theirs are.
Here are a couple of stories
about pervs caught in the act. One has been been caught twice
before. One wonders how many of these crimes went undetected, and
how much worse if would be if they hadn't been caught.
Federal prosecutor
from Florida caught in child sex sting
DETROIT
-- A U.S. Justice Department official has been arrested on suspicion
of traveling to Detroit over the weekend to have sex with a
minor.
John David R. Atchison, 53, an assistant U.S.
attorney from the northern district of Florida, was arraigned in U.S.
District Court in Detroit Monday afternoon.
An
undercover officer posed as a mother offering her child to Atchison
for sex, according to police.
Prosecutors said
Atchison flew from Pensacola, Fla., to Detroit on Sunday intending to
have sex with the 5-year-old girl.
He was arrested at
Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
He is charged with
enticement of a minor to engage in sexual
activity.
According to authorities, Atchison made
contact with a detective working undercover for the Macomb County
Sheriff's department's.
The detective, acting as the
child's mother, allegedly arranged a sexual encounter between
Atchison and her 5-year-old daughter, police said.
In
deposition, detectives said Atchison suggested the mother tell her
daughter that "you found her a sweet boyfriend who will bring her
presents."
The undercover detective expressed concern
about physical injury to the 5-year-old girl as a result of the
sexual activity. Detectives said Atchison responded, " I am always
gentle and loving; not to worry, no damage ever, no rough stuff ever.
I only like it soft and nice."
The undercover
detective asked how Atchison can be certain of no injury. He
responded, "Just gotta go slow and very easy. I've done it plenty,"
according to detectives.
Atchison, a member of the
Florida bar association since 1984, lives in Gulf Breeze, Fla., near
Pensacola.
He is president of the Gulf Breeze Sports
Association, a youth athletics organization.
He
described himself online as a family man. His wife is a science
teacher at Gulf Breeze High School.
DETROIT -- An assistant U.S. attorney from Florida will
return to federal court in Detroit today for a detention hearing on a
charge that he flew to Detroit intending to have sex with a 5-year-old
girl.
John David "Roy" Atchison, 53, of Gulf Breeze,
Fla., was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Sunday in an
Internet child sex sting run by the Macomb County Sheriff's Office
and the FBI.
A deputy posed as a mother who was
interested in finding someone to have sex with her children in a chat
room sting that earlier netted a paramedic and a zookeeper, both from
California.
According to a complaint unsealed Monday,
Atchison reassured the deputy posing as the child's mother that he
would not hurt the 5-year-old because he goes "slow and easy" and
"I've done it plenty."
Atchison, who is in custody, is
charged with using interstate communication to entice a minor, a
federal charge that carries a 10-year minimum prison sentence upon
conviction. He is also charged with crossing state lines for illicit
sexual contact, which carries a maximum sentence of 30
years.
News of Atchison's arrest is "a shellshock" in
Gulf Breeze, three miles from Pensacola, where Atchison is the
president of the Gulf Breeze Sports Association and has coached youth
soccer, baseball and other sports, said Lt. Rick Hawthorne of the
Gulf Breeze police.
(AP) A federal prosecutor accused of flying to Detroit
last month to have sex with a 5-year-old girl committed suicide
Friday in his cell in a Milan federal
prison.
Assistant U.S. Attorney John D.R. Atchison was
found unresponsive, taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead at
10:17 a.m., Federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Felicia Ponce
said.
He was charged with three felonies, the most serious
of which was crossing state lines with intent to have sex with
someone under 12. A conviction had carried a minimum of 30 years in
prison.
A statement released Friday by his lawyer,
James Thomas, said Atchison had "done a lot of good in his
life."
"Unfortunately, he is going to be judged by his
most recent charges and what we have read in the media, and not by
the goodness, hard work or by the love of his
family."
The statement also said Thomas would file a
request to have the case dismissed.
Atchison had
attempted to hang himself with a bedsheet last month in a Sanilac
county jail, but another inmate alerted guards who stopped the
suicide attempt. He later was taken by U.S. Marshals to the Milan
prison.
Three days before that suicide attempt,
Atchison had assured a judge he would not harm
himself.
While I couldn't find any link that
says he's specifically a Republican, as an Asst. US Attorney in the
Bush/Gonzalez highly politicized DoJ, I think that's a fair
assumption. Certainly, it fits the pattern of GOP Pedophiles, a
partial list here.
St. Bernard Parish Councilman Joey DiFatta,
who on Thursday withdrew from the 1st Senate District campaign, has
been stopped twice since 1996 for suspicion of engaging in lewd
behavior in public restrooms in Jefferson Parish, records obtained by
The Times-Picayune show.
DiFatta, 53, acknowledged that
reports he had been stopped are true, but he denied any wrongdoing in
both cases. He said he was not prosecuted in either case and has no
arrest record.
"If I had done something wrong, I would
have been arrested,"DiFatta said Thursday afternoon. "I was not. I
will deny that I was involved in any activity of that
nature."
Earlier Thursday, DiFatta called reporters to
announce that he planned to withdraw from the Senate race. He said he
has been having chest pains for a few weeks, and elevated enzyme
levels indicate he might have had a minor heart attack in the past
few days. As a result, his doctor advised him to slow down and make
some changes in his life.
DiFatta, who has served on
the St. Bernard Parish Council since January 1996 and is currently
its chairman, denied he is stepping down from the Senate race for
fear that the reports would become public. In fact, he said he did
not know the reports had surfaced when he made his
decision.
Kenner
police issued a misdemeanor summons to DiFatta in September 1996 in
connection with a peeping Tom incident in a men's bathroom at the
former Mervyn's department store at The Esplanade mall, according to
a Kenner Police Department incident report obtained by The
Times-Picayune.
The report states that DiFatta watched
a man use the bathroom while peering through a hole in a bathroom
stall. The man held DiFatta until police arrived, at which time he
was issued the misdemeanor summons and ordered to appear in
court.
DiFatta said the man eventually withdrew his
complaint, and the case was dismissed. A spokeswoman for the Kenner
Police Department said the record was expunged.
Tapping
foot in stall
In the second incident, Jefferson Parish
deputies working an undercover detail in a men's bathroom at
Dillard's at Lakeside Shopping Center in March 2000 stopped DiFatta
after he indicated a desire to engage in sex with an undercover
deputy in an adjoining bathroom stall, according to an interoffice
memorandum written by Sgt. Keith Conley, one of the deputies involved
in the investigation.
The report said DiFatta slid his foot into the
deputy's stall and tapped the deputy's foot. In the report, Conley
noted that such activity is common among men to indicate a
willingness to participate in sex.
The deputy inside
the stall, Detective Wayne Couvillion, responded by tapping his foot,
and DiFatta reached under the partition and began to rub the deputy's
leg, the report states.
The detective asked DiFatta,
"What do you want?" according to the report, and he replied, "I want
to play with you."
DiFatta also used a hand signal to
indicate that he wanted to engage in sex and used language that
indicated the same, according to the report. Conley, who is now the
Kenner city attorney, confirmed the report's authenticity
Thursday.
The incident did not culminate in an arrest because the
deputy in the bathroom with DiFatta terminated the investigation
after several children entered the bathroom, the report states.
Conley noted in the report that DiFatta appeared well-versed and
comfortable with the routine.
Conley wrote that had the
investigation been allowed to continue, it likely would have
concluded in DiFatta's arrest on obscenity charges, including a
possible attempted crime against nature.
Conley
confronted DiFatta outside the bathroom, and DiFatta apologized and
said he would not return, according to the report. DiFatta also said
he has a problem with such behavior and had sought counseling for the
addiction in the past, the report states.
In both
instances, DiFatta produced his commission from the St. Bernard
Sheriff's Office identifying him as a captain. DiFatta said Thursday
he did not show his commission either time until officers asked him
for identification, all of which he keeps in his
wallet.
Louisiana - Republican Councilman Joey
DiFatta, who on Thursday withdrew from his Senate campaign, has been
stopped twice since 1996 for suspicion of engaging in lewd behavior
in public restrooms in Jefferson Parish, reports The
Times-Picayune.
In one police report it shows that
DiFatta was watching "a man use the bathroom while peering through a
hole in a bathroom stall." Another says "DiFatta slid his foot into
the deputy's stall and tapped the deputy's foot"
Just hours before
the story appeared in the Times-Picayune, DiFatta called local
reporters to announce that he would withdraw from the senate race
because he had been having chest pains and "might have had a minor
heart attack in the past few days."
From The
Times-Picayune:
Jefferson Parish deputies working an
undercover detail in a men's bathroom at Dillard's at Lakeside
Shopping Center in March 2000 stopped DiFatta after he indicated a
desire to engage in sex with an undercover deputy in an adjoining
bathroom stall, according to an interoffice memorandum written by
Sgt. Keith Conley, one of the deputies involved in the investigation.
The report said DiFatta slid his foot into the deputy's stall and
tapped the deputy's foot. In the report, Conley noted that such
activity is common among men to indicate a willingness to participate
in sex.
The deputy inside the stall, Detective Wayne
Couvillion, responded by tapping his foot, and DiFatta reached under
the partition and began to rub the deputy's leg, the report
states.
The detective asked DiFatta, "What do you
want?" according to the report, and he replied, "I want to play with
you."
DiFatta also used a hand signal to indicate that
he wanted to engage in sex and used language that indicated the same,
according to the report. Conley, who is now the Kenner city attorney,
confirmed the report's authenticity Thursday.
The original Times Picayune article is no
longer on the web, surprise surprise, which is why the link its to an
Alaskan site.
Marscon
Marscon 2010 is coming
up March 5-7. The day before, I'll be leading a the Marscon
Expeditionary Force to the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting
and anyone is welcome to join us. Just let me know.
Thanks to everyone who has sent me music to
play on the air.
--////
"[Mark Sanford] sinned against me and he sinned against our G_d, but
I'm not sure he sinned against the office that badly." -- ex-sife
Jenny Sanford, on why her husband wasn't impeached. The Daily Show
2/8/10
David Sirota: Rogues Gone Wild (creators.com)
Ah, the good old days when even a big shot like Gen. Al Haig could get in trouble for such mavericky declarations that defy basic constitutional precedents. In the 21st century, that's ancient history. We've so idealized cowboy-style rebellion in matters of war and law enforcement that "going Haig" is today honored as "going rogue." Defiance, irreverence, contempt - these are the moment's most venerated postures, no matter how destructive or lawless.
roger ebert's journal: Roger Ebert's Last Words, cont.
Christy Lemire wrote me: "So, everyone seems pretty moved by the 'Esquire' piece on you, but I'm wondering what you thought about it. It's so intimate, personal."
Ebert's 2010 Oscar Predictions
I can't remember a year when it seemed easier to predict the Oscars. Those words may come back to haunt me, but there you have it. Of the top eight categories, seven look like sure things. The only dicey one is best picture, and although "Avatar" may roll in on its record-breaking profits, I think it's a win for "The Hurt Locker."
Sharon Knolle: Eastwood Takes Oscar "Snub" in Stride (moviefone.com)
Clint Eastwood, who's the subject this week of both a new documentary and a massive 35 DVD retrospective set, recently called actor Morgan Freeman his "lucky charm," explaining, "We had two Best Pictures ('Unforgiven' and 'Million Dollar Baby') with him in it."
WASHINGTON - With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities... Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power - NYTimes.com
Last November after Obama was elected, I asked about what Executive Orders you'd like 'The Man' to make. Puzzlingly, he did not utilize that option in any significant way, to my thinkin'... Now, however, with his "agenda stalled", he's decided to get 'Froggy' and make that leap... So, once again, I ask...
What specific issues would you like 'The Man' to address with Executive Orders?
Saffron is a spice derived from the flower of the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus), a species of crocus in the Iridaceae. A C. sativus flower bears three stigmas, each the distal end of a carpel. Together with their styles-stalks connecting stigmas to their host plant-stigmas are dried and used in cooking as a seasoning and colouring agent. Saffron, long the world's most expensive spice by weight, is native to Southwest Asia.
Source
mj was first, and correct, with:
Since flowers operate on threes and fives
I'm going with three, because it's more perverse (taking more flowers to get the job done).
Alan J replied:
Three
BadtotheboneBob responded:
Three... and I every time I think of saffron, Donovan's 'Mellow Yellow' lyrics come to mind... "I'm just mad about Saffron, A-Saffron's mad about me..."
Marian the Teacher answered:
3
Charlie wrote:
Three.
There's a song in here somewhere.
Sally said:
Crocus sativus has 3 stigma that loll out of the flower like this:
PS: I finally got to see the movie, "Avatar" at an IMAX theater, in 3D. Unfortunately, I was just queasy all through it so it was hard to 'enjoy,' though it was spectacular, I must say.
Because the film takes place 'up in the air' (as the people live up in the trees at the top of gigantic cliffs - and I can't even stand of a chair to change a light bulb) I fast remembered that I have terrible vertigo. It's a shame, the tickets cost a fortune...
MAM replied:
A saffron crocus flower bears three stigmas.
And, Joe S responded:
Three.
PS Julianne Moore will hit the big 5-0 in December. I don't have a shot
though because she's a Comely Cougar, and for other reasons too numerous
to mention.
If a movie is ever made of his life, it's too bad Tony Curtis won't be around to play him. Haig was a poor student whose way was opened by connections- first by his uncle, later by his father-in-law. His early military career in Korea was spent as part of headquarters staff where he made himself useful supplying bath house rendezvous and other perks to the brass. He missed the initial invasion by detouring with his father-in-law to Taiwan, on a liaison mission to Chiang Kai-shek.
Purple Gene's review of Dave Chappelle's secret stand up gig at "The New Parish" nightclub in Oakland….2/20/10.
Secret Show
My DJ son Smoky sent me an emergency text…"Dave Chappelle in 40 minutes"…I dropped everything and drove with him to a small backstreet club in Oakland called "The New Parish"…..my son had gotten hold of 2 VIP passes to this un-promoted secret sold out gig….Dave's personal DJ "Fuze" had gotten us into the backstage booth…..I found out that this was the hottest ticket in town and there were local celebrities galore in the house.
Rainbow Jacket
A buff, cigarette smoking bald headed Dave walked onto the red brick backed stage….took the mike and to a thunderous applause started what turned out to be a 3 hour show…..the first barbs went to the San Francisco gay community…as Dave took off his rainbow jacket he said…Gay people can't claim that they alone own the rainbow….his pointed remark was filled with affectionate humor…he said…c'mon..I'm just jokin'" as he launched into describing being confronted in the Castro from behind by a buff gay fan with "titty balls"…."Say Dave….I'm your biggest fan…"
Richard Pryor
Dave Chappelle was 9 years old when Richard Pryor performed at the "Circle Star Theater"….I was there with my brother J.D in 1982 at the theater in the "round"…….we were perhaps the only 2 white dudes in the whole audience……Richard was acerbic and hilarious….and we found out that he was also Dave's biggest influence. In fact, Richard Pryor passed the comedy torch to Dave before he died…quite an honor…and in a way, tonight, I felt that same pointed social and political comedic sense of timing that made Richard so funny.
Dirty Hippies
Dave's next subject of skewering was Hippies…."I like hippies…they're cool…smoke good shit….but their feet….ugh dirty dirty feet….hate it…and the hair…armpit hair…leg hair on the girls…and other places as well…ugh"!
Power Masturbating
After describing his marriage and 2 kids and the fact that in general his wife treats him like the 3rd child in the house….Dave described his one power move….masturbating…."If my wife leaves the house for 3 hours….I wait a half an hour to be sure she's not coming back and then I find a safe spot and feel my manhood…"
Bad Movies
Dave spent a "little" time talking about his questionable movie career…His collaboration with Martin Lawrence in "Con-Air"…..his appearance in Eddie Murphy's "The Nutty Professor" and his starring in "Half-Baked"…."this is why I went to Comedy Central when I was offered my own stand up comedy weekly special…..!"
55 Million later
Dave did talk a little about his famous disappearing act in 2005…..Comedy Central had offered him 55 million for 2 more years of work (with time for his side projects) but Dave said he got tired of doing "Weekly Skits" and without notice vanished….not only losing his lucrative paycheck but winding up in South Africa…..giving way to many idle rumors…..but he said the time off was well worth the loss of 45 million…haha…"no that's bullshit" he finally quipped.
Sore Sides
The whole audience was completely drained and sore in the sides from laughing so hard….the owner of the club had to remind Dave that there was over 200 people waiting outside for his 2nd show (he was now 45 minutes over schedule)…..Dave said …"OK fuck it …see you all later" I don't know how much more of his humor I could take…I was all laughed out !
Purple Gene gives Dave Chappelle 10 loopy and looney comedic smoke rings from Dave's constant cigarette out of 10 for being a hilarious master of humor.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN'Accidentally On Porpoise', then a RERUN'2½ Men', followed by a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', then a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One'.
On a RERUNDave (from 2/2/10) are John Travolta, Shaun White, and Ben Harper & Relentless7.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Parker Posey and Tom Everett Scott.
NBC fills the night with FRESH'Olympics'.
The Tonight Show is pre-empted for Olympics coverage.
Jimmy Fallon is pre-empted for Olympics coverage.
Carson 'The Scab' Daly is pre-empted for Olympics coverage.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor', followed by a RERUN'Murder, He Wrote Castle'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 1/27/10) are Mel Gibson, Kate Micucci, and Mayer Hawthorne.
The CW offers a FRESH'One Tree Hill', followed by a FRESH'Life Unexpected'.
Faux has a RERUN'House', followed by a FRESH'24'.
MY recycles an old 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by another old 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
A&E has 'Criminal Minds', 'Intervention', another 'Intervention', and 'Hoarders'.
AMC offers the movie 'Philadelphia', followed by the movie 'Forrest Gump', then the movie 'Forrest Gump', again.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 22 Lutton
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 13 Elliot
[2:00 PM] Antiques Roadshow UK - Episode 10
[3:00 PM] Antiques Roadshow - Episode 24
[4:00 PM] Antiques Roadshow UK - Episode 11
[5:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Sebastian's
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[9:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[12:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[2:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 8
[3:00 AM] Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - Ep 10 Jimmy Carr, Serena Williams, Robbie Williams TV-14
[4:00 AM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 6
[4:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 5
[5:00 AM] BBC World News
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', still another 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Kell On Earth'.
Comedy Central has 'RENO 911!', another 'RENO 911!', still another 'RENO 911!', yet another 'RENO 911!', 'Tosh.0', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', and 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Ricky Gervais.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Olympic coverage with guest TBA.
FX has the movie 'Armageddon', followed by the movie "The Devil Wears Prada', then a FRESH'Damages'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', and another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[7:00 AM] Dallas 362
[8:45 AM] La Pointe Courte
[10:15 AM] Proof
[11:50 AM] 2010 Spirit Award Nomination Special
[12:15 PM] Dallas 362
[2:00 PM] La Pointe Courte
[3:30 PM] Proof
[5:00 PM] Food Party
[5:15 PM] Dallas 362
[7:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[7:30 PM] Monty Python's Flying Circus
[8:00 PM] Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
[9:45 PM] Bamboozled
[12:00 AM] Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
[2:00 AM] Ideal
[2:30 AM] Z Rock
[3:00 AM] Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
[4:40 AM] La Pointe Courte (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Summer Hours
[06:45 AM] Flight Of The Red Balloon
[08:45 AM] Alone In Four Walls
[10:15 AM] Confessions Of An Innocent Man
[11:45 AM] Body of War
[01:15 PM] Flight Of The Red Balloon
[03:15 PM] Alone In Four Walls
[04:45 PM] Confessions Of An Innocent Man
[06:20 PM] The Glass House
[08:00 PM] Born Into Brothels
[09:30 PM] Street of Crocodiles
[10:00 PM] Be Good Johnny Weir: Be Good Johnny Weir - Episode 3
[10:30 PM] Be Good Johnny Weir: Be Good Johnny Weir - Episode 4
[11:00 PM] Ghosts Of Cite Soleil
[12:30 AM] Street of Crocodiles
[01:00 AM] Spectacle - Season 2: Spectacle: Elvis Costello With... Neko Case, Sheryl Crow, Ron Sexsmith, Jesse Winchester
[02:00 AM] Be Good Johnny Weir: Be Good Johnny Weir - Episode 3
[02:30 AM] Be Good Johnny Weir: Be Good Johnny Weir - Episode 4
[03:00 AM] Theater Of War
[04:45 AM] Born Into Brothels (ALL TIMES EST)
British actress Vanessa Redgrave, left, and her daughter Joely Richardson, arrive at the British Academy Film Awards 2010, at The Royal Opera House in London, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010.
Photo by Joel Ryan
Forty-five men you've probably never heard of were honored with an Academy Awards ceremony of their own that recognized scientific and technical achievements in moviemaking.
The engineers behind the latest in ambient occlusion, digital intermediate processing, sub-pixel offsets and micro-positioning platforms were celebrated at a Saturday night gala at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and hosted by a very unscientific Elizabeth Banks.
Wearing a sparkling white gown and standing in front of four giant Oscar statues, Banks presented 15 plaques and certificates to scientists from Germany, Sweden, Austria, England, New Zealand, Hungary, Denmark, Japan and the United States.
While the March 7 Academy Awards ceremony will be all A-list glitz and televised glam, the Sci-Tech Awards are an off-camera, low-key event, with one humble scientist after another taking the stage and nervously thanking his family and colleagues.
Bianca Jagger, human rights activist and former wife of Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger, (C) watches the presentation of the Julien Macdonald 2010 Autumn/Winter collection during London Fashion Week, February 21, 2010.
Photo by Suzanne Plunkett
The war story "The Hurt Locker" and the recession tale "Up in the Air" have won top honors at the Writers Guild of America Awards.
"The Hurt Locker" won Saturday for best original screenplay for writer Mark Boal. "Up in the Air," based on Walter Kirn's novel, earned the adapted-screenplay award for writer-director Jason Reitman and co-writer Sheldon Turner.
"The Hurt Locker" and "Up in the Air" are up for the same screenplay honors at the Academy Awards, which will be handed out March 7.
Winning the guild's documentary screenplay award was Mark Monroe for "The Cove," a study of Japanese fishing operations that slaughter dolphins.
Winners of the 2010 Orange British Academy Film Awards, presented Sunday:
Film - "The Hurt Locker"
British Film - "Fish Tank"
Director - Kathryn Bigelow, "The Hurt Locker"
Actor - Colin Firth, "A Single Man"
Actress - Carey Mulligan, "An Education"
Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz, "Iglourious Basterds"
Supporting Actress - Mo'nique, "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."
Academy Fellowship - Vanessa Redgrave
A model demonstrates a TV Hat marketed by SKM Industries of Olyphant, Pa., at the American International Toy Fair, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 in New York. The user places an iPod, iPhone or MP3 player into the end of the visor and a built-in magnifier produces a theatre-like experience while wearing the hat.
Photo by Mark Lennihan
Police are asking for the public's help in locating actor Andrew Koenig, who had a recurring role on the 1980s sitcom "Growing Pains."
Vancouver police say Koenig was visiting friends in West Vancouver when he went missing. He was last seen on Feb. 14.
Koenig, 41, lives in Venice, Calif., but at one time lived in Vancouver. He is the son of Walter Koenig, who played Chekov on the "Star Trek" television series and movies.
On "Growing Pains" Koenig played Boner, a pal of star Kirk Cameron's character Mike.
Glenn Beck says it's still morning in America: a head-pounding, hangover morning.
The conservative commentator drew cheers from conservative activists Saturday night in a speech that implored Republicans to renounce profligate ways in Washington, let big banks fail and honor true conservative principles.
Beck was keynote speaker for the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. The unhinged TV and radio host said the GOP should confess its adherence to big government in the way golfer Tiger Woods admitted a problem with women - and show the same remorse.
Democrats didn't get off the hook. Beck called "progressivism" a disease imperiling the morning in America that Ronald Reagan saw as full of promise.
People release sky lanterns to celebrate the traditional Chinese Sky Lantern Festival in Jingtong, Taipei County, February 20, 2010. Believers gathered to release sky lanterns as a form of prayer for good luck and blessings. The tradition of releasing lanterns began during the Ching Dynasty when bands of outlaws frequently raided villages, forcing local residents to seek refuge in the mountains. The lanterns were signals used by the village watchmen to inform the refugees that their houses were safe again.
Photo by Pichi Chuang
Former world leaders George W. Bush and Tony Blair joined Nigeria's elite at a ceremony honoring the political and business establishment Sunday, but one honoree's absence highlighted the endemic corruption and other problems plaguing the oil-rich nation.
Hosted by a Nigerian newspaper mogul Nduka Obaigbena, the ceremony included an award for former anti-corruption investigator Nuhu Ribadu, who investigated top ruling-party politicians. But family members had to accept the award for Ribadu who left Nigeria for the United States after being fired from his job and the target of a drive-by shooting.
Neither Bush nor Blair spoke at the event, but former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice briefly touched on the corruption plaguing Nigeria in her speech.
Rice called on Nigeria to hold honest and transparent presidential elections scheduled for 2011.
Two prominent schools in China dispute allegations that hacking attacks on Google and other firms originated from them, a report said Saturday.
The New York Times reported late Thursday that security investigators traced the hacking to computers at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School in China.
The official Xinhua News Agency cited an unnamed university spokesperson Saturday as saying the allegation against it is baseless, and an official at the vocational school said its investigation found no evidence the attacks originated there.
Li Zixiang, a Communist party official in the Lanxiang school in the eastern Shandong province, said students there are currently on their winter break. He also disputed the Times report that some evidence linked attacks to one computer science class taught by a Ukrainian. "We have never employed any foreign staff," Xinhua quoted Li as saying.
This Holstein is more than just another udder in the herd. The cow from the Ever-Green-View Farm in eastern Wisconsin has set a new national milk production record. A Holstein tagged number 1326 in Waldo has pumped out about 8,400 gallons of milk in one year.
The cow's milk production of 72,170 pounds is well above the previous record of nearly 68,000 pounds held by a cow in Marathon. The Holstein Association USA keeps records on top producers dating back to 1971.
Owner Tom Kestell said his standout Holstein received no special treatment and was never sick during the record-setting year, which ended Feb. 6.
The Sheboygan Press said the average registered Holstein in Wisconsin produces 23,000 pounds of milk annually.
South Carolina archaeologists believe they might have unearthed the first octagonal house in the United States. The ruins were found last fall on the banks of the May River in the southern coastal town of Bluffton. A letter written in 1796 by a visitor mentions the octagonal house and helps date the structure.
Archaeologists Heather Cline and Mary Socci say the 900-square-foot house was owned by Scottish immigrant William McKimmy and was built about 1790.
That would mean the home predates Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. That home was built in the 1820s near Lynchburg, Va., and is considered to be the first octagonal house in the U.S.
The director of archaeological restoration at Poplar Forest says he questions whether the find in South Carolina is a full-size home.
Words and music, such natural partners that it seems obvious they go together. Now science is confirming that those abilities are linked in the brain, a finding that might even lead to better stroke treatments.
Studies have found overlap in the brain's processing of language and instrumental music, and new research suggests that intensive musical therapy may help improve speech in stroke patients, researchers said Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
In addition, researchers said, music education can help children with developmental dyslexia or autism more accurately use speech.
People who have suffered a severe stroke on the left side of the brain and cannot speak can sometimes learn to communicate through singing, Gottfried Schlaug, associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School told the meeting.
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio's voyage to "Shutter Island" has landed them at No. 1 at the weekend box office.
Their creepy crime thriller set at a remote insane asylum opened with $40.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. A Paramount Pictures release, "Shutter Island" is the fourth collaboration for Scorsese and DiCaprio and the best opening yet for both the director and star.
Roman Polanski's thriller "The Ghost Writer" got off to a big start in limited release, pulling in $179,000 at four theaters in New York City and Los Angeles for a whopping average of $44,750 a cinema. That compares to a $13,440 average in 2,991 theaters for "Shutter Island."
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday.
1. "Shutter Island," $40.2 million.
2. "Valentine's Day," $17.2 million.
3. "Avatar," $16.1 million.
4. "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief," $15.3 million.
5. "The Wolfman," $9.8 million.
6. "Dear John," $7.3 million.
7. "The Tooth Fairy," $4.5 million.
8. "Crazy Heart," $3 million.
9. "From Paris With Love," $2.5 million.
10. "Edge of Darkness," $2.2 million.
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